Word: flushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give a boxing lesson, stabbing sharp lefts, waltzing away, rushing in for a ferocious flurry of punches. He got his comeuppance in the second round. Instead of backing away in confusion, Basilio met the champion headon. He shook Gavilan with a right, landed a crushing left hook flush on his jaw. The crowd went wild; for the second time in 112 fights, the great Kid Gavilan was down, flat on his back, eyes glazed, pomaded hair askew. The referee counted to eight before the champion got to his feet and groggily hung on until the bell...
...eighth round, confidently careless, Bobo caught one of Paddy's wild hooks flush in the face and faltered. But he recovered and went back to the business of demolishing Paddy with a barrage of flicks. Sturdy Paddy Young did not go lown, but he seemed to grow perceptibly older and slower...
...sleepy parsonage in Yorkshire, where lived the Rev. Patrick Brontë, an old man, craggy and almost blind. Her mission was to write a biography of Parson Brontë's daughter Charlotte, who had died of consumption only a few months earlier, at 39, in the full flush of her fame and notoriety as the author of Jane Eyre. Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë proved to be one of the great English biographies. Dozens more have since told the Brontë story, but none with greater emotional intensity...
Bathrooms account for much of the water demand, each flush of a water closet requiring eight gallons of water. Van Dorp suggested that his findings might be used as a swift and foolproof system (dubbed Teleflush by the irreverent) of rating TV programs. To no one's surprise, Van Dorp's system reveals (see chart) that Toledo's favorite is the same as the rest of the nation's: I Love Lucy...
Your Molotov cover [April 20] is excellent-not only because of good painting and all that red, but also because Ranting Aunty Molly is right flush in the center of the picture and the background is blank-for a change...